The first battlecruisers began in 1906 in England. With the exception of Germany and Japan, the rest of the maritime powers, which until that time had built armored cruisers, not only did not continue their construction, but also generally refused to build heavy cruisers in the future. According to the concepts accepted in the German Navy, heavy cruisers included armored and battleships. Such a heavy cruiser could be to some extent equivalent to a battleship, not with its relatively weak weapons or rather weak armor protection, but with its higher speed. Of course, this could only be achieved by using a larger displacement. The result was a new type of strong and formidable ship, in the creation of which Germany has always been more successful than England.